Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Publications

Tribal leaders, scholars and others working with tribes on climate change issues are increasingly engaged in bringing tribal voices to academic literature, agency climate reports, and other publications to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities in the United States, and the measures tribes across the country are taking to address climate change. Abstracts and materials provided by the publications are included in the descriptions.

Publication	Year	Geography	Website
Kaufman, L., 2011: Seeing trends, coalition works to help a river adapt. The New York Times. URL ↩ Categories: Adaptation, salmon, fish health, Nisqually River, snowpack, flooding, stream flow	2011	Northwest	Link
Walker, R., 2012: Haida Gwaii Quake brings home the importance of Quileute relocation legislation. Indian Country Today Media Network.com. URL ↩ Categories: Relocation, Quileute, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest	Link
Burkett M(2011) The nation ex-situ: on climate change, deterritorialized nationhood, and the post-climate era. Clim Law 2(3):345–374 Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, climate migration, international law	2011	International
Klopotek, Brian. 2011. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Categories: Federal Recognition, Louisiana, Tunica-Biloxi, Jena Choctaws, Clifton-Choctaws, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southeast
Wang, M., and J. E. Overland, 2012: A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years: An update from CMIP5 models.Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18501, doi:10.1029/2012GL052868. URL ↩ Categories: sea ice, Arctic	2012	Arctic
Couvillion, Brady A., John A. Barras, Gregory D. Steyer, William Sleavin, Michelle Fischer, Holly Beck, Nadine Trahan, Brad Griffin, and David Heckman. 2011 Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana from 1932 to 2010: U.S. Geological Survey. Scientific Investigations Map 3164. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3164/downloads/SIM3164_Pamphlet.pdf Categories: land area change	2011	Southeast	Link
Krakoff, S. 2011. Radical Adaptation, Justice, and American Indian Nations. Environmental Justice 4(4): 207-212. Categories: Adaptation, historical removal from homelands, Cherokee Nation, environmental change, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest	Link
WATER IN INDIAN COUNTRY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES A REPORT PREPARED BY THE TRIBAL WATER WORKING GROUP Categories: water quality, water quantity, ecosystems, Fisheries, Climate change, tribal water rights, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest, United States	Link
Crate, Susan A. 2011. Climate and Culture: Anthropology in the Era of Contemporary Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 40:173–194. Categories: Climate change, perceptions, adaptation and resilience, research approaches, anthropological role(s), climate ethnography, tribe, indigenous	2011	Global	Link
Kukarenko, N. 2011. Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research. Global Health Action. 4: 7913. Categories: Climate change effects, Human Health, gender, Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2011	Arctic
Willox, A. C. 2012. "Climate Change as the Work of Mourning." Ethics & the Environment 17(2): 137-164. Categories: mourning, vulnerability	2012		Link
DOE, 2011: Tribal Energy Program: Financial Assistance and Project Management. 49 pp., U.S. Department of Energy. URL ↩ Categories: Tribal energy program, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
Mack, M. C., S. M. Bret-Harte, T. N. Hollingsworth, R. R. Jandt, E. A. G. Schuur, G. R. Shaver, and D. L. Verbyla, 2011:Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire. Nature, 475, 489-492, doi:10.1038/nature10283. URL ↩ Categories: Climate science Earth science Ecology Environmental science	2011	Arctic	Link
University of Oregon, 2011: Climate Change: Realities of Relocation for Alaska Native Villages. Tribal Climate Change Project-Tribal Profiles. 5 pp., The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. URL ↩ Categories: Relocation, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska
Green, D. and Raygorodetsky, G. (2010) Indigenous Knowledge of a Changing Climate. Climatic Change, Vol. 100, p. 239-242. Categories: indigenous knowledge, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2010	International	Link
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, 2010: Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Climate Adaptation Action Plan. 144 pp., Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Office of Planning and Community Development, La Conner, WA. URL ↩ Categories: Swinomish, Adaptation Plan, tribe, indigenous	2010	Northwest	Link
University of Oregon, 2011: First Foods and Climate Change Report. Tribal Climate Change Project-Tribal Profiles. 6 pp., The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
Hovelsrud, G. K., & Smit, B. (2010). Springer. Springer Science Business Media B.V. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9174-1 Categories: New Institutional Analysis (NIA), Community Adaptation, Arctic, Yukon Territory, tribe, indigenous	2010	Canada, Arctic	Link
Sydell, L., 2010: FCC Eyes Broadband for Indian Reservations. NPR News. URL ↩ Categories: Reservations, Telecommunications, tribe, indigenous	2010	United States	Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2011: The recognition dimensions of environmental justice in Indian Country. Environmental Justice, 4, 185-186, doi:10.1089/env.2011.4401.↩ Categories: Environmental Justice, Native American environmental thought, environmental ethics, environmental policy, tribal governance, Indian environmental law, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
ITEP, 2010: Inupiaq Tribal Profile. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, Northern Arizona University. www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/tribes/ak_inupiaq.asp↩ Categories: Alaska, Inupiaq, tribe, indigenous	2010	Arctic, Alaska	Link
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) 2010. Fact Sheet: Women, Disasters, and Hurricane Katrina. Categories: Violence against women, Disasters, Hurricane Katrina	2010	Southeast
Bjørst, Lill R. 2010. The tip of the iceberg: Ice as the non-human actor in the climate change debate. Études/Inuit/Studies 34(1): 134–150. Categories: environmental change, Inuit, framing, framing of climate change, tribe, indigenous	2010	Arctic, Global	Link
K. McLean, G., 2010: Advance Guard: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Indigenous Peoples - A Compendium of Case Studies. United Nations University - Traditional Knowledge Initiative, 128 pp. URL ↩ Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation, indigenous, tribe	2010	International	Link
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, Migration, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2010	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Karuk Tribe, 2010: Department of Natural Resources Eco-Cultural Resource Management Plan. 171 pp., Karuk Tribe of California, Department of Natural Resources. URL ↩ Categories: Karuk, Management Plan, tribe, indigenous	2010	Northwest	Link
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, social vulnerability, tribe, indigenous	2010	Alaska, Arctic
Kellogg, Joshua, Jinzhi Wang, Courtney Flint, David Ribnicky, Peter Kuhn, Elvira González De Mejia, Ilya Raskin and Mary Ann Lila, 2010: Alaskan Wild Berry Resources and Human Health under the Cloud of Climate Change. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2010, 58 (7), pp 3884– 3900 DOI: 10.1021/jf902693r Categories: traditional ecological knowledge, adipocytes, diabetes, Obesity, metabolic syndrome, tribe, indigenous	2010	Alaska, Arctic
Bronen, R. (2010). Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change. In Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability (pp. 87-98). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Categories: Alaska, indigenous people, tribe, Shishmaref, Kivalina, Shaktoolik, Newtok, Relocation, displacement, climate-induced migration, climigration	2010	Arctic, Alaska	Link
Kofinas, G.P., Chapin F.S. III, BurnSilver, S., Schmidt, J.I., Fresco, N.L., Kielland, K., Martin, S., Springsteen, A. and Rupp, T.S. (2010) Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to interior Alaska’s changing climate. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research, Vol. 40, p.1347–1359. Categories: Subsistence harvesting, Athabascan peoples, moose, hunting conflicts, co-management strategies, tribe, indigenous	2010	Alaska	Link

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.